Chapter 49 : Flame Demon
Living Jiangshi.
A monster created in the past by the Maoshan Sect of the Demonic Cult by modifying human bodies.
I heard they disappeared when the Maoshan Sect, which had thrown itself into the Blood Cult, was annihilated.
'The guy who would use such a thing immediately came to mind.'
Hyeokryeon Geuk.
It seemed Hyeokryeon Geuk had already visited the Potala Palace.
He even planted a Jiangshi here after seeing the Fire Spirit Jade.
It seemed the Potala Palace Lord sent me down here knowing all of this.
Boom!
'Fast.'
Flames soared every time the guy swung his sword.
It was because the flame barrier protecting me was deflecting the guy's sword.
-Annoying.
The Living Jiangshi was continuously conveying thoughts via telepathy.
However,
'Hmm?'
While I was watching the Jiangshi's swordsmanship to defend against its sword.
'I wondered why it was so familiar...'
The sword strikes the Jiangshi was unfolding were swordsmanship I had seen a lot.
Seven Severing Demon Sword.
The martial art unfolding from Jiangshi's hand was one of the martial arts I learned from the elders in the past.
In other words, that meant,
"Why... have you become a Jiangshi in a place like this!"
At this point in time, an elder who should be busy training me in the Demonic Cult, why!
Seven Severing Demon Sword First Form, Seeming Real Returning to Void.
Techniques where reality and illusion are mixed dizzy my eyes.
A sword where lethal techniques and feints could not be distinguished flew toward me.
However,
'I distinguish it.'
Swish!
A sword strike sweeping past my neck.
'It's a feint.'
-No...
Next, a fast sword aiming for the heart.
Second Form, Cold Killing God Flight.
Black cold energy spewed from the sword tip shoots toward the heart.
This is a lethal technique.
That means.
"Nine Kills Spouting Gold."
I drew my sword and swung it nine times.
Nine swords flashed nine times spewing red flames.
-How did you bastard!
Slash-!
As Jiangshi's chest is cut, flames rise from the guy's body.
"Because it is a sword I learned directly from you, Seven Severing Elder."
Seven Severing Demon Sword, Ultimate Technique Seven Severing Soul Slash.
A sword strike burning the soul flew toward Jiangshi's heart, its core.
-Keuk.
"I do not know for what reason Hyeokryeon Geuk made you into this state. But please rest in peace now."
Whoosh-
Flames started to burn the Jiangshi.
At that moment,
Light returned slightly to the pitch-black pupils of the Jiangshi.
-Th, thank you.
Whoosh!
The flames turned the Jiangshi into ashes.
I stared at the Jiangshi turning into ashes with sorrowful eyes.
Hiss-
As the Demonic Qi scattered, the Fire Spirit Jade behind it revealed its appearance.
The Fire Spirit Jade started to spew out light.
-Kekeke, what do you intend to do now?
If I put my mind to it, taking the Fire Spirit Jade was nothing.
Of course, since taking the Fire Spirit Jade wouldn't be of any help to me either, I had no intention of doing so.
However, if Hyeokryeon Geuk saw the Fire Spirit Jade and left, and because of that the Young Palace Head was influenced by the Fire Spirit Qi.
"I do have to examine it."
What he did to the Fire Spirit Jade.
I approached closer so I could see the Fire Spirit Jade well.
***
At that time, North Sea Ice Palace.
Crack-
Ice Crystal fragments started to fall down.
"It is anxious..."
Seol Ye-rin, who was standing in front of the Ice Crystal, muttered.
After Hyeokryeon Yeom's group left the Ice Palace, Seol Ye-rin also did not just waste time.
"I am more anxious!"
"I told you, you do not need to be watching like that."
Next to the Ice Crystal, the North Sea Ice Palace Lord, Seol Baek-ho, was looking at Seol Ye-rin with eyes full of anxiety.
"Do you really have to do this when even the Small Snow Squad Captain is not here?"
"It is okay because Tamya is here now and, I must do it now because the Small Snow Squad Captain is not by my side."
Seol Ye-rin standing in front of the Ice Crystal again.
That was to sever the curse of this Ice Crystal on her own.
'Until the Third Young Master returns, no matter what happens...'
She wanted to make it so there would be no talk that he would be engaged to a terminally ill patient with Severed Meridians.
Even before Hyeokryeon Yeom arrived at the Ice Palace, Seol Ye-rin was a person who could not expect a 'future'.
She, who had been continuing her life waiting only for the day she would die soon, became able to continue her life again thanks to Hyeokryeon Yeom.
It must have been from then.
Hyeokryeon Yeom might not know.
But Seol Ye-rin decided to live the rest of her life for Hyeokryeon Yeom.
That was why she was able to even utter the word 'Gaga' out of her mouth.
To her, the engagement ceremony was a very significant event.
Currently, the perception of the Young Palace Head within the Ice Palace was not that good.
A terminally ill patient who doesn't know when or how the Extreme Yin Qi will relapse and kill her.
Hyeokryeon Yeom, who says he will marry such a woman, was being treated like a crazy guy.
In fact, Seol Ye-rin came to know that rumors were spreading that he had no interest in Seol Ye-rin at all and wanted the marriage, aiming for the position of the live-in son-in-law of the Ice Palace.
Grind-
The emotion she felt first upon hearing those rumors was indignation.
'Do they think someone was born with this constitution because they wanted to be born with it?'
Perhaps because this resentment was an emotion she thought about a lot when she was freezing due to the Extreme Yin Qi, it disappeared quickly.
The thought that came next was immediately the thought about Hyeokryeon Yeom.
'Even if we say it's so for me because I have karmic retribution, it's not so for the Third Young Master.'
To recover Seol Ye-rin, he willingly threw away the status of the Cult Leader's youngest son and came to find the Ice Palace.
Of course, there must have been various external factors too, but.
One thing certain is,
'That he did not leave me.'
Hyeokryeon Yeom was the only man who told her he would protect Seol Ye-rin by her side until the end.
She did not want to become a flaw to such a man.
So she came to see the Ice Crystal again.
Because it was also all because of the Ice Crystal that she first came to know she possessed the Extreme Yin Body.
Seol Ye-rin stared at the Ice Crystal.
Somehow the energy did not feel as lively as before.
If it was before, the Extreme Yin Qi would have coiled around Seol Ye-rin as if excited when she approached.
-Grrrr.
There would be various reasons, but among them, the reason the Extreme Yin Qi cannot easily step forward is,
"Thank you, Tamya."
-Growl.
It was all because of Tamya.
They know.
At that moment the Extreme Yin Qi also rushes at Seol Ye-rin through the void.
They will be eaten.
Seol Ye-rin closed her eyes.
Because right now, when they cannot easily rush at Seol Ye-rin, was the time she had to accomplish something.
"What do you intend to do?"
Her father's dissuasion or such was not important to Seol Ye-rin.
'Ice Crystal, I do not want to be the weak me anymore.'
She did not want to live a life indebted to Hyeokryeon Yeom anymore.
So what started is exactly this training.
Sizzle-
She reaches out her hand toward the Ice Crystal.
Clang!
Tremendous cold energy started to cross over to Seol Ye-rin riding her fingertips.
Seol Ye-rin, who acquired the mystery of emptying and filling, was filling the Extreme Yin Qi through the Ice Crystal after emptying the Extreme Yin Qi to the fullest.
-Awooo!
Just in case she might accept the Extreme Yin Qi excessively, Tamya prevented the excess.
'If it is like this...'
She will absolutely never freeze again.
On top of that,
'Vwoom-'
In Seol Ye-rin's qi center, the Extreme Yang Qi Hyeokryeon Yeom injected and left existed, albeit weakly.
"Groan."
The only one burning with anxiety was the Ice King, Seol Baek-ho.
What Seol Baek-ho could do was,
"Stupid guy, return quickly."
Only hoping that Hyeokryeon Yeom, who left for the Potala Palace, would return quickly.
***
Crack-
"A crack is forming."
-That is a big problem.
Sword Venerable Elder answered reflexively to my muttering.
"Why is it a big problem?"
-Hmm, taking the Ice Crystal as an example, the criterion for the Ice Crystal going berserk is when the Ice Crystal breaks.
In other words, it sounded like saying the moment the Fire Spirit Jade also breaks, it could start going berserk.
"This Fire Spirit Jade, what kind of object is it to the Potala Palace?"
The Potala Palace of the Western Regions worships flames like the Demonic Cult.
The Fire Spirit Jade is practically the crystal of those flames.
-The one who broke the divine object will become a public enemy, I suppose.
I let out a sigh.
I have no desire to become a public enemy of the Potala Palace.
"It is a bit regrettable though."
Sizzle-
Extreme Yang Qi spews out from my qi center.
The Extreme Yang Qi that had already absorbed the Fire Spirit Qi started to wrap around the Fire Spirit Jade.
The Fire Spirit Jade that had a crack started to stick back together.
Not only that.
'Now it's doing all sorts of things.'
Are you Tamya?
The Fire Spirit Jade started to suck up the Extreme Yang Qi.
Gulp- Gulp-
It is sucking up quite a larger amount of Extreme Yang Qi than I thought.
Since I didn't think a moment of emptying the Extreme Yang Qi would come in the Potala Palace, I was slightly flustered, but.
"Hyeokryeon Yeom!"
Not through the space I fell, but through another space, the Potala Palace's Young Palace Head, Cheon Deung-jin, revealed his appearance.
But it seems he misunderstood something.
I wanted to say that it's okay, that he doesn't need to run over like that.
Because I was showing an appearance frozen while wrapping around the Fire Spirit Jade.
"No!"
Cheon Deung-jin, who witnessed that appearance, started to run toward me at a tremendous speed.
I wanted to tell him to stop, but.
Because the amount of Extreme Yang Qi the Fire Spirit Jade was sucking up started to increase more and more, it was difficult to stop him.
The moment the hand of Cheon Deung-jin who approached it touched the Fire Spirit Jade attached to me!
Flash!
A tremendous flash swallowed us.
.......
....
.
"...Mmm."
The light that flashed for a long time faded.
Wondering if I was hit by the Fire Spirit Jade's rampage, I examined my body first.
'There is nothing wrong?'
Cheon Deung-jin?
He is not visible.
On top of that.
'Where is this?'
The Fire Spirit Jade also disappeared.
-Are you looking for this?
Then, someone's voice was heard.
As I quickly turned my head toward the source of the voice,
Whoosh-
I saw a man in black wrapping flames around his whole body revealing his appearance with an intrigued expression.
The man possessing red hair contrasting with the North Sea Martial God, Snow Wind Sword Venerable, was flame itself indeed.
And... he was not human.
Like the Snow Wind Sword Venerable.
A ghost.
I had no choice but to ask.
"Who... are you?"
About the ghost's identity.
At my question, rather the opponent looked back at me and spoke.
-Flame Demon Bukgung Son.
Like the Martial Gods met in the North Sea.
I ended up meeting the ghost of a demonic practitioner who handles flames in the Potala Palace.